Cigarette paper



Patented Nov. 2, 1926.

LOUIS UNGER, on ELYRIA, OHIO.

PATENT OFFICE.

CIGARETTE PAPER.

No Drawing.

It is a well known fact that cigarette smoking is injurious and harmful to the health of the person smoking them. Also that the cause of injury, in most cases, can be traced to the paper used in their manufacture.

The smoking of cigarettes as ordinarily manufactured, especially if inhaled, gives rise to a dry feeling of the throat and lungs l0 and an unhealthy condition of the mouth.

Cigarettes of ordinary manufacture, if kept for any length of time, soon become dry and lose their quality.

An object of my invention is the production of a paper to be used in the manufacture of cigarettes that overcomes injurious and unhealthy effects of cigarette smoking.

A further object of my invention is the production of a paper for use in the manufacture of cigarettes that would keep the cigarette tobacco moist and fresh and prevent the tobacco losing its quality, due to this drying condition.

Still a further object of my invention is the production of a paper for use in the manufacture of cigarettes that has some advertising characteristics as to color, and is of pleasing color that will enhance their sale and use.

Other objects and advantages of my invention will be apparent from the description.

My composition for the manufacture of cigarette paper consists of a mixture of paper-pulp, pine tar and common salt. In preparing the composition I prefer to use the ingredients in about the followingproportions by weightviz:--99% paper-pulp, pine tar, common salt.

Good results may be obtained, however, when the ingredients are varied within the following limits :--94 to 99% paper-pulp, 3% to pine tar 3% to common salt.

In making my composition, theproper proportions of paper-pulp, pine tar solution and common salt solution is prepared separately and then mixed together, after which the paper-pulp is used in the usual manner for the manufacture of the cigarette paper.

Application filed March 26, 1926. Serial No. 97,780.

Pine tar solution prevents the destructive action on the lungs and throat of the ordinary burnt cigarette paper and at the same time when burnt gives forth a pleasant per fumed odor. The salt solution urges to a certain extent the drinking of water which has the tendency to counterbalance the dry ing effect of ordinary manufactured paper cigarettes on the lungs and throat. The salt taken into the system when smoking cigarettes wrapped in paper of my composition, when mixed with. the blood in the lungs, gives nourishment to the blood cor puscles. The salt in the. paper also acts as a disinfectant for the mouth, as it is a well known fact that a salt solution has disinfecting quality. The salt has a further use in my cigarette paper composition in that the salt absorbs moisture from the air and the effect is that the tobacco in the cigarette will be kept moist and fresh and will not dry quickly.

It has been found from experience that the addition of a small amount of quinine to my composition heretofore described, creates in the smoker a negative desire for drink containing alcohol. 1/10% to 1/20% quinine may be therefore added to the mixture of paper-pulp, pine tar and salt, if this effect is desired to be produced.

I may also remark that the heavy pine tar helps in gluing or pasting the. paper too when preparing the cigarette.

What I claim as new, is

1. A composition of matter for use in the manufacture of paper comprising paperpulp, pine tar and common salt.

2. A composition of matter for use in the manufacture of cigarette paper that is beneficial to the health of the smoker, keeps the tobacco moist and fresh, and gives forth a pleasant odor when burnt, comprising paper-pulp, pine tar and common salt.

3. A composition of matter for use in the manufacture of cigarette paper comprising by weight 94% to 99% paper-pulp, to 3% pine tar and to 3% common salt.

4. A composition of matter for use in the manufacture of cigarette paper consisting by Weight of 99% paper-pulp, pine tar and common salt, substantially as clescribed.

5. A composition of matter for use in the manufacture of cigarette paper that is beneficial to the health of the smoker, keeps the tobacco moist and fresh, and gives forth a pleasant odor l 1en burnt, comprising paperrpulp, pine tar, common salt, and quinine. I

6. A composition of inatter for use inthe manufacture of cigarette paper comprising" by Weight 94% to 99% paper-pulp, to 3% pine tar, to 3% common salt, and 1/10% to 1/20% quinine.

7. A composition of matter for use in the manufacture of cigarette paper consisting by weight of 99% paper-pulp, pine tar, 1/3% common salt, and 1/20% quinine.

Signed at Elyria, in the county of Lorain, and State of Ohio, this-15th claj'bf March A. D. 1926.

REV. LOUIS UNGER.

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